REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION - LEVI ADAMS, JR.

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Levi ADAMS Junior, Soldier of the American Revolution, born 2/17/1754 died 
12/26/1843 or 1833 in Ripley, Chautauqua Co NY, received a pension, 1833, for 
service as private in the Connecticut and Vermont troops. He was born in 
Dutchess County; His father, Levi Adams SR was also a Soldier in the Revolution, 
DAR records exist for this family; Levi Adams Senior, (1728-1816) served as 
private and corporal in Capt. Timothy Backus' company, Col. John Douglas' 
Connecticut regiment. He was born in Canterbury, Conn.; died in Hartwick, N. Y.

(LEVI, 1754 date of death of 1843 on his marker may be in error, Historical 
records indicates a date of 1833)
Wife was Hannah PETTINGILL, 1753-1835
Both are buried in QUINCY RURAL Cemetery, Ripley NY LOT B 34

Sergt. Levi, (1754):--He made a declaration, Oct. 12, 1832, before the judges of 
Chautauqua County, N. Y., and gave his birth date as Feb. 17, 1754, saying that 
he volunteered from Canterbury, Conn., Sept. 12, 1776, in the Co. of Capt. 
Sherebiah Butts, and served 2 months in Westchester County, N. Y., participating 
in the battle of White Plains, Oct. 28, 1776; enlisted again and served 5 months 
under Capt. Sanford Kingsbury at Providence, R. I., and Boston, Mass.; served 2
weeks under Capt. Ziba Hunt, at New London, Conn., in 1778; removed to Pawlet, 
Vt., in Feb., 1780, where he served 5 days in March, 1780, under Capt. John 
Stark, marking an expedition to Skeenboro (Whitehall) in pursuit of a party of 
Indians who had burnt the house of Col. Skeene and murdered a soldier. He also 
served several short terms at Castleton, Vt., and removed to Milford, Otsego 
Co., N. Y., in 1794, and removed thence to Ripley, Chautauqua County, N. Y., in 
1826, where he died 23d Mar., 1845